Difference between revisions of "Documents of Interest"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Created page with "This page has two sorts of links: links useful to those interested in mud and online world design specifically, and links that are about game design in general. * Seph's Int...") |
|||
| Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
---- | ---- | ||
=== Papers, essays, references, and other research materials === | === Papers, essays, references, and other research materials === | ||
| + | * Richard Bartle's homepage has a multitude of good material on it. Some of the more notable material includes: | ||
| + | ** The Arch-Wizard Archives contains Michael Lawrie's "Confessions of an Arch-wizard" which is a seminal document on how to administrate muds. | ||
| + | ** Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms has a few items of interest to mud designers: | ||
| + | ** A chapter from Virtual Communities that deals with muds | ||
| + | ** An essay entitled "Virtual Communities, Phony Civil Society?" which has interesting implications for those interested in virtual societies. | ||
| + | ** Another essay, by Jan Fernback & Brad Thompson, entitled "Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure?" that covers similar territory. | ||
| + | ** The fantastic Papers - [ Synchronous Communications | VR | 3D ] page indexes and lists abstracts for a virtual mountain of important papers on muds, including work by Elizabeth Reid, Julian Dibbell, Richard MacKinnon, Richard Bartle, Amy Bruckman, Pavel Curtis, and others. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ---- | ||
| + | === Mud design links === | ||
| + | * Marian Griffith's Roleplaying page includes her !Overlord Project, which is a collaborative design for a roleplaying-focused mud. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ---- | ||
| + | === General game design sites and documents === | ||
| + | * Items by Chris Crawford: | ||
| + | ** His seminal book The Art of Computer Game Design | ||
| + | ** Various writings of his on game design | ||
| + | |||
| + | * GameDev's library of game design links. | ||
| + | * Gamasutra is a game development industry hangout that often features game design articles. | ||
Revision as of 23:45, 7 June 2017
This page has two sorts of links: links useful to those interested in mud and online world design specifically, and links that are about game design in general.
- Seph's Interview of Ptah
- Mud of the Month Interview
- An Essay on Ethics and Virtual Reality
- Scripting on Diku Derived MUDs
- A Story About A Tree
Studies and histories of specific online worlds[edit]
- Rider University once hosted Life at the Palace: a Cyberpsychology Case Study which was an extensive and detailed study of the graphical chat space The Palace
- Wired once hosted Killers Have More Fun an article by Dr Amy Jo Kim about Ultimate Online.
- On his site, Richard Bartle has a page of links to material about specific muds.
Papers, essays, references, and other research materials[edit]
- Richard Bartle's homepage has a multitude of good material on it. Some of the more notable material includes:
- The Arch-Wizard Archives contains Michael Lawrie's "Confessions of an Arch-wizard" which is a seminal document on how to administrate muds.
- Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms has a few items of interest to mud designers:
- A chapter from Virtual Communities that deals with muds
- An essay entitled "Virtual Communities, Phony Civil Society?" which has interesting implications for those interested in virtual societies.
- Another essay, by Jan Fernback & Brad Thompson, entitled "Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure?" that covers similar territory.
- The fantastic Papers - [ Synchronous Communications | VR | 3D ] page indexes and lists abstracts for a virtual mountain of important papers on muds, including work by Elizabeth Reid, Julian Dibbell, Richard MacKinnon, Richard Bartle, Amy Bruckman, Pavel Curtis, and others.
Mud design links[edit]
- Marian Griffith's Roleplaying page includes her !Overlord Project, which is a collaborative design for a roleplaying-focused mud.
General game design sites and documents[edit]
- Items by Chris Crawford:
- His seminal book The Art of Computer Game Design
- Various writings of his on game design
- GameDev's library of game design links.
- Gamasutra is a game development industry hangout that often features game design articles.